Louis de Belle
"Every two years, the members of the religious industry and representatives of the clergy meet in the North East of Italy for the World Fair for Church supplies, liturgical and ecclesiastical art. According to the BBC, this market is worth an estimated $5.2 billion a year only in Italy.
In the grey area between sacred and profane, Besides Faith invites the viewer to take a look at this picturesque happening by detaching for a moment all of its paraphernalia from the notion of faith."
In the grey area between sacred and profane, Besides Faith invites the viewer to take a look at this picturesque happening by detaching for a moment all of its paraphernalia from the notion of faith."
Commercially, I had no idea that the Catholic Church was worth so much money. All of these decorations being celebrated seem rather redundant to me and remind me of the concept of the reliquary; the larger and more ostentatious it is, the more significant the relic. I notice massive amounts of repetition in this piece. I will try to encorporate this in my project as a statement on the overproduction of Catholic decoration; its ostentatious repetitiveness lacks aura. 
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